The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-29

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-The tickle
god of wind is evidently disinclined to
favor the rival yachts this morning
with any but light breezes, and public
disappointment win doubtless be as
manifest as public interest. 1t is
to be hoped that the result of to-days
contest IN the lower bay win not prove
repitItiOn of the first trial race. If
the race is settled to-day it will be
under conditions most favorable to the
Scotch cutter.
The Thistle crossed the line at 1925
and the Volunteer one minute later.
NEW YORK. Sept. 27.-The Volun-
teer finished at 5:32, and the Thistle at
5:44.45. The Thistle was bad second.
A RESUME OF THE RACE.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-The Scotch
cutter Thistle and the American sloop
Volunteer, have met the first 1887 con-
| test for the Americas cup, and the
Volunteer beat the foreigner so badly
that the latter's most enthusiastic
| champions have only to say that some
thing inexplicable is the matter with
the Thistle. The people who went
down on the three hundred steamships,
| river steamboats,, tugs, steam yachts,
sailing yachts and other boats, num-
bered easily SO 600, and the scene pre-
sented by the heterogeneous mass of
raft before and after of the start can
not be described. They covered over
fifty or more acres on the water. With
| favorable surroundings the race would
| have been started at half past
| 10 o'clock this morning, but at that
hour there was not air enough to blow
a match out, and the judges on Com
modore Grey's Electra waited to start
l the racers until there should appear a
chance of getting the boats over the
| course in the prescribed seven hours.
| That appearance did not come until
noon. At that time ripple came over
| the water from the southwark and
| eastward, and the signal was given to
clear the course. At 1920 the Electra
sed the preparatory gun, and at 1890
/ the gun to start After the latter the
| line. If either had taken longer than
| five minutes her time of start would
have been registered at the expiration
| of the five minutes. The boats crossed
as follows: Thistle II mr., SO m, s.;
Volunteer IL mr., "a m, SO s. The
Thistle not only had the nearer position
when the order to start was given, but
she also went through the water faster 2;
She got over the line minute and o.
seconds ahead. The eight miles an
hour wind was then blowing from the
south, southeast and the yachts had
to sail close to the wind fol
the first mark-Buoy 10 on the south
west spot-which bore south by west
eight and a half miles away. They
went over on the port tack, and at once
the Volunteer began to overhaul the
Thistle. The first tack was in toward
Clifton, Staten Island, and on that
tack of fifteen minutes or less the Vol
unteer showed superiority over the
Thistle in weather that had beer
written down as the foreigners best
that left no doubt of the result
The Volunteer went by the cutter az
though the latter was anchored anC
she stayed in front to the end. The
Thistle was more than little bothered
by the excursion boats on that first
tack. The steamers crossed her bows
and gave her much swash, but after
that the steamers hung to the Volun
teer, the leader, and throughout thu
rest of the day she suffered three times
at least as much as the Thistle die
from the way it kicked up the waters
and shut off the wind. It was NJ
longer a race. It was a procession
From the light-ship back to Buoy II
. it was a beat wind, and from there
home to Buoy Is off Fort Wadswortl
, it was clean run before the wind will
spinnakers set. The total distance wa:
thirty-eight statute miles. Everywhere
except on the run with spinnakers
where the excursion boats did so mucf
to keep the wind from her, the Volun
teer outsailed her antagonist. A fur
Their description of the race would be ;
repetition of the above.